NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s wife has cut off contact and no longer visits him in prison. That’s one of the new details learned Wednesday on Ruth Madoff’s new life in Florida.

It’s a life very different from the Upper East Side luxury she enjoyed for years, reports CBS 2’s Tony Aiello.

She lived in the lap of luxury inside a penthouse just steps from Lexington Avenue, where many who remember Ruth Madoff politely declined to talk on Wednesday.

“Well, I don’t like to see people suffer, but I have no comment,” one woman said.

Tony Aiello serves as a CBS 2 general assignment reporter. After spending eight years covering news in the Northern Suburbs, he’s now based at the CBS 2 Broadcast Center in New York City.
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